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May 26 , 2026

Ethiopian Looks South as Namibia Tries to Rebuild a National Carrier

The Ethiopian Airlines Group (EAG) is weighing a deeper role in Southern Africa's fragmented aviation market after Namibia formally asked the carrier to help re-establish a national airline, a move th...

May 23 , 2026

Fed Courts Big Investors with a Promise to Pay If Things Go Wrong

The federal government has moved to put its balance sheet behind a select group of investments, approving a regulation that gives strategic investors a path to compensation if state action strips them...

May 23 , 2026

New Capital Market Pledges Power to the People But Finds Few Ready to Trade

The test arrived not in the trading hall, but at the regulator's desk. The young capital market found itself sapped by paperwork. Of the 71 registration statements submitted to the Ethiopian Capita...

May 17 , 2026

Tax Bill Tests the Line Between Compliance, Fairness

A revised tax administration law could bar taxpayers from submitting new evidence during complaints, appeals, or tax revision proceedings if the material was not provided during the initial assessment...

May 17 , 2026

Trillions in Financial Assets But Too Little Reaches Markets

The federal government's plan to build a capital market begins where the financial system is most revealing, but not with a lack of money. It is with the narrow channels through which money moves. ...

May 17 , 2026

Digital Cure For Drug Shortages Struggles to Reach Hospital Shelves

The federal agency in charge of imports and distribution of medicines launched “Project SMILE,” a programme intended to integrate procurement, inventory, warehousing, and distribution into a singl...

May 17 , 2026

Lawyers Win Reprieve as VAT Battle Tests Limits Ministry's Mandate

The Federal Supreme Court's interim order late last week has turned a technical tax dispute into a confrontation over executive power and professional autonomy. For now, the Court has stopped enfor...

May 17 , 2026

United States Sees Ethiopia’s Open Door with a Stubborn Lock

Ethiopia's trade with the United States has become a revealing test of the Administration's economic reform drive. The market is opening, but rules of entry and competition remain uneven, leaving W...

May 17 , 2026

ELECTIONS WITHOUT A PULSE?

The national poll set for next month has the scale of a vast political exercise, but not yet the atmosphere of one. According to federal electoral officials, 47 parties have fielded 10,933 candidates...

May 9 , 2026

FED'S COSTLY TURN FROM MONEY PRINTING PILES PRESSURE ON BUDGET

Finance Minister Ahmed Shide entered the last quarter of the fiscal year with a budget under pressure and a financing plan stretched by delayed foreign support. The Minister's nine-month report sho...

May 9 , 2026

A Fuel Corruption Case Opens with Officials, Businesspeople in the Dock

At the Federal High Court's Lideta Division, on Dejazmach Bekele Weya Street, one of the government's largest public-corruption prosecutions of the year began last week with a crowded courtroom, a lat...

May 13 , 2026

Addis Abeba Turns to Federal Coffers as Housing Debts Strain City Finances

Mayor Adanech Abiebie's cabinet has approved an additional 9.9 billion Br budget, a midyear patch that lays bare the pressure building inside the city's finances. Abdulkadir Redwan, the head of cit...

May 9 , 2026

Upper House Freezes Cosmo Asset Battle Testing Commercial Courts

The fight over Cosmo Trading Plc has outgrown the courtroom where it began. What started as a 20 million Br share sale in 2017 now sits before the House of Federation (HoF), where a dispute over contr...

May 9 , 2026

Safaricom’s Big Bet Begins to Pay Off, at a Cost to Customers

Safaricom's Ethiopian bet, defined by the cost of entering one of Africa's last closed telecom markets, began to look less like an expensive experiment late in the current financial year. A change...

May 3 , 2026

New Bill Seeks to Finance Cybersecurity Through Mandatory Contributions

A bill before federal lawmakers last week extends the mandatory contribution system to cyber protection. If approved, owners of critical infrastructure would help finance the defence of systems they o...

May 3 , 2026

Ex-CBE Noor Corruption Case Returns with Wider Claims Over Loans

The corruption case against Nuri Hussein returned to federal courts on Thursday with broader stakes, reviving a matter that federal prosecutors had earlier abandoned following an order from the Minist...


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